… Funding The patient cohorts involved in this research were funded by the NIH (grants from
the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the National Eye Institute …

… For the 7 out of 694 discharged patients whom we know subsequently died, we censored …
patients with unknown vital status. To estimate the association between baseline patient …

… The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC), a consortium of 36
professional organizations involved in cancer care in the US, has conducted national …

… patient cohort, and a patient survey. 2) Criteria reduction by Delphi and nominal group
technique exercises. 3) Criteria definition and weighting based on criterion performance and on …

… preceding entry of a patient into a given cohort—when available. Cohorts were not required
… 3-month window preceding entry of a patient into a given cohort), we permitted collection of …

… patients with RA who were and were not being seen by rheumatologists by identifying
candidate patients, … We supplemented this cohort with additional previously studied patients with …

… When possible, clinicians should make patients aware of the full range of screening options,
… neoplasia and cancer in screening cohorts. At this time, patients will need to be informed …

… PATIENTS AND METHODS: Follow-up was obtained for 205 (95.8%) of the 214 patients
enrolled in the 1990 American College of … data from this group of patients with giant cell atteritis …

… of patients. In a study in the LUpus in MInorities, NAture versus nurture (LUMINA) cohort, the
proportion of SLE patients not … to be included in the LUMINA cohort. Furthermore, data for …

… Patients could be represented in either or both cohorts. Thus, patients were identified from
2 … For each of the 2 cohorts, we selected those patients who had not been treated previously …